Word: nea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoke venerable William Heard Kilpatrick, just retired by Columbia's Teachers College and now at Northwestern University, at the 75th or "diamond" convention of the National Education Association in Detroit last week. As 1,300 delegates and 12,000 vacationing NEA members crowded warmly into the Masonic Temple to begin four days of talk about their profession, no one was more on teachers' minds than the President of the U. S. He had just signed a new NEA charter which democratized the board of directors by dropping from it the Association's 22 past presidents, mostly school...
Quins alive. The Star was willing to handle Canadian sales and in July, when the Quins were seven weeks old, it called for bids on the U. S. rights. Newspaper Enterprise Association's $2,050 for six months was top. When that contract expired, NEA and Hearst's King Features Syndicate got together to halt a bidding contest at $10,000. In the spring of 1936, the NEA-Quins contract was renewed at the same figure...
Last week NEA, a little breathless after a scrimmage with "another American com-petitor" (not Hearst), signed up to pay the five little Dionnes about $50.000 a year for the exclusive privilege of making their "still" pictures for newspapers, magazines and commercial users,* for by now the Quins have become the world's greatest news-picture story, subscribed to for 1937 by 672 U. S. dailies with an aggregate circulation...
Extremely profitable to themselves, the Quins' cherubic features are not, however, the gold mine for NEA that might be supposed. NEA gives them to the 710 clients of its regular feature service at no extra charge, and now at a cost to itself of about $100,000 a year. Hearst thought the new $50,000 was too high, so NEA hurried around last week placing new Quin contracts. Takers included the Boston Post, Atlanta Journal, Detroit News and, for exclusive U. S. magazine rights, TIME...
...more satisfied are most teachers, whose National Education Association has consistently deplored the absence of teachers on the NYA Advisory Board, now staffed with such lay figures as Glenn Cunningham, Amelia Earhart and Owen D. Young. Bitter because the New Deal has rejected NEA's demands for a Federal annuity to assist U. S. schools lamed by Depression, NEA's Secretary Willard Givens cracked at NYA as follows: "While a few youngsters are being taught harmonica playing, fancy lariat throwing and boondoggling, some hundreds of thousands of less fortunate ones throughout the U. S. are being denied...